By the way, aren't unrestored cars awesome? I LOVE looking around a car that hasn't been touched. I don't care if its a 65 Corvette bigblock or a 74 Pinto. It offers an insite into the past, into a time that is gone forever.

Well if nobody else is going to venture a guess, I'll say it's a unibody vibration dampener. They're usually mounted behind a car's bumpers. I remember some talk of these on this thread about 5-6 months ago.

Otherwise, I have no idea.....Maybe it's a clever way for a foreign country to rid itself of some toxic waste - encapsulate it in cast iron, bolt it to a car chassis and send it off to unsuspecting international consumers. Ya never know.

Well if nobody else is going to venture a guess, I'll say it's a unibody vibration dampener. They're usually mounted behind a car's bumpers. I remember some talk of these on this thread about 5-6 months ago.

Otherwise, I have no idea.....Maybe it's a clever way for a foreign country to rid itself of some toxic waste - encapsulate it in cast iron, bolt it to a car chassis and send it off to unsuspecting international consumers. Ya never know.

Man, you are too good Joe!

Yep, if no one got it I was going to give the hint "Cocktail shaker" (google it with the word Camaro).

I see them all the time but this one was kinda odd in how big it was and where it was located. They are usually in the center of the bumper and many cars have them. But this thing was huge and heavy!

I call them "Placentas" because you know they were an afterbirth. You know that during testing they found some odd vibration or something and this is how they fix it.

Brian

If you'll notice I have been saving that photo for quite some time just for this thread.

According to the Delco radio service manuals, they were not available in '74.They were in '78, but that wasn't the first year. The answer I'm looking for lies somewhere in between.

Also, after some more research, I found that I have to throw out the bonus question because there was an exception. You couldn't get one in a Chevrolet, except for the Corvette - for some reason that was listed separately in the service manuals as if Corvette was it's own division.

My dad was selling new Buicks at that time and 76 maybe, but my guess is 77.

My dad used to joke how people from a certain inner city culture would come in and say they wanted "The A and the Fm Sterio tape deck". Then when the CB was added they added it to their "Must have" list too. "The A and the Fm sterio tape deck cb radio".

My Cad had the mic with the dial on it to change the channels. I can't remember if it was the 23 channel or after they added the extra ones, what is it now, 40? Anyway, that was the "cel phone" of the day. For that matter it was better than a cel phone in many ways. You could put a number of the channel you used on your window and people could contact you on the radio that you didn't know. If you wanted to respond you could, if you didn't, you could just let them talk to themselves.

"Breaker breaker rubber ducky looks like we got ourselves a convoy"

Youngsters, if you didn't know about this CB culture in the 70's you missed out on a good time. There were hit songs on the charts talking about cb radios instead of poppin caps in someones ars. It was a good time.

"Teddy bear" by Red Sovine. The video is pretty bad so just listen at least the first time you here it. A little corny, yep, maybe a lot corny. But it was all over the radio and the charts.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY4BV14OZzQ

I wonder if it was just a coincidence that it was also the same year that Smokey and The Bandit was released; A movie that was chock-full of GM cars and trucks - and CB radios. Next time I watch that movie, I'll be sure to watch closely to see if the cars are using Delco CB's; I'll bet they are.

The louvers do tell you something, but not the V8. There are some components on the motor that tell you what year it is though. I am after body parts. There are two very easy things, but now I do see a couple more, on sheetmetal that support what year it is too. But I don't just let "louvers" get you the point, you have to tell me why.

Louver are curved on the 34, the 34 has 2 handles for the hood. All in all, there are 65 differences between the 2 years, grille shell and front are the ones I remember without the Google gods. Here's a good reference page:http://www.streetrodding.com/index.c....view&id=31387

__________________
"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not." - Mark Twain

Register Now

In order to be able to post messages on the Hot Rod Forum : Hotrodders Bulletin Board forums, you must first register.
Please enter your desired user name (usually not your first and last name), your email address and other required details in the form below.

User Name:

Password

Please enter a password for your user account. Note that passwords are case-sensitive.